News @ 7: From the Middle of Nowhere!

UPDATE 8:00 a.m: The 3 minute video clip is on the WDBJ web site for a couple of days. I will archive it to YouTube or someplace later this week. Thanks to Bob Grebe and crew for their kind words and efforts on our behalf. And who is that old man in the video anyway?

News at Channel 7 (Roanoke VA) that is, and I’m not actually sure about the time. Whenever Bob Grebe is doing the morning news tomorrow–Wednesday June 3–in the morning and possibly again at noon.

Bob and camera man Len were out here last Wednesday filming on a day with just barely enough light but thankfully without rain for the segment that will air tomorrow. We, unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how it turns out, will not be able to see it live since we haven’t had TV for quite a few years.

But my hope is that somebody out there will have TiVo and be able to snag a digital version for me so I can get it uploaded and linked from the Fragments sidebar and from the Books Web Site as well.

Or then again, I may pay you to burn it and never mention it again. We’ll just have to see. — Fred

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Fred First holds masters degrees in Vertebrate Zoology and physical therapy, and has been a biology teacher and physical therapist by profession. He moved to southwest Virginia in 1975 and to Floyd County in 1997. He maintains a daily photo-blog, broadcasts essays on the Roanoke NPR station, and contributes regular columns for the Floyd Press and Roanoke's Star Sentinel. His two non-fiction books, Slow Road Home and his recent What We Hold in Our Hands, celebrate the riches that we possess in our families and communities, our natural bounty, social capital and Appalachian cultures old and new. He has served on the Jacksonville Center Board of Directors and is newly active in the Sustain Floyd organization. He lives in northeastern Floyd County on the headwaters of the Roanoke River.

Fred — Loved both of the videos! I do hope you find a way to make them part of your site. Perhaps you can find a way to run loops at places where your books are for sale – or at least where you’re having book signings. Congratulations! Georgia